Besides its historical significance as a break with the centuries-old tradition of British insularity, Britain's move, if successful, will constitute an historic landmark of the first importance in the movement toward the unification of Europe and the Western world.

Wallace Gray has directed a difficult play here, usually well, but with just a bit too much physical movement in the first act for my taste.

* 1907 – The start of the first Scout camp on Brownsea Island, the origin of the worldwide Scouting movement.

The Baptist movement originated with Thomas Helwys, who left his mentor John Smyth ( who had moved into shared belief and other distinctives of the Dutch Waterlander Mennonites of Amsterdam ) and returned to London to start the first English Baptist Church in 1611.

* 1965 – The infamous first Reyes party between Ken Kesey's Merry Pranksters and motorcycle gang the Hells Angels takes place at Kesey's estate in La Honda, California introducing psychedelics to the gang world and forever linking the hippie movement to the Hell's Angels.

The ALP was founded as a federal party prior to the first sitting of the Australian Parliament in 1901, but is descended from Labour parties founded in the various Australian colonies by the emerging labour movement in Australia, formally beginning in 1891.

* 1963 – American civil rights movement: James Meredith becomes the first black person to graduate from the University of Mississippi.

Other anti-war demonstrations were organized by the antiglobalization movement: see for example the large demonstration, organized against the impending war in Iraq, which closed the first European Social Forum in November, 2002 in Florence, Italy.

This is a pedagogical movement with over 1000 Steiner or Waldorf schools ( the latter name stems from the first such school, founded in Stuttgart in 1919 ) located in some 60 countries ; the great majority of these are independent ( private ) schools.

The early members of this movement abhorred the name " Anabaptist ", claiming that since infant baptism was unscriptural and null and void, the baptizing of believers was not a " re-baptism " but in fact the first baptism for them.

The first was a movement away from the sequence dances towards dances where the couples moved independently.

The first movement is in sonata form, and the mood is often stormy.

The second movement, a scherzo and trio, is also in D minor, with the introduction bearing a passing resemblance to the opening theme of the first movement, a pattern also found in the Hammerklavier piano sonata, written a few years earlier.

The trio is the first time the trombones play in the movement.

Following the trio, the second occurrence of the scherzo, unlike the first, plays through without any repetition, after which there is a brief reprise of the trio, and the movement ends with an abrupt coda.

After finishing the trios, in the fall of 1808, he began sketching the Choral Fantasy, the work considered to be the " first draft " of the last movement of the Symphony No. 9.

Seretse Khama, a leader in the independence movement and the legitimate claimant to the Ngwato chiefship, was elected as the first president, re-elected twice, and died in office in 1980.

The first climber to actually make bouldering his primary specialty ( in the mid 1950s ) and to advocate its acceptance as a legitimate sport not restricted to a particular area was John Gill, a mathematician and amateur gymnast who found the challenge and movement of bouldering enjoyable.

The first European general to introduce rapid movement, concentrated power and integrated military effort was Swedish King Gustavus Adolphus during the 30 year war.

It is the movement of a ' contrite heart ,' drawn and moved by grace to respond to the merciful love of God who loved us first.

It was used to build up the first movement of most large-scale works, but also other movements and single pieces ( such as overtures ).

Agüero ( a white man ) and Sánchez ( a mulatto ) were both executed, becoming the first popular martyrs of the Cuban independence movement.

Given that drug poisoning causes a large portion of patients in a coma, hospitals first test all comatose patients by observing pupil size and eye movement, through the vestibular-ocular reflex.

These portable devices first became popular with the wearable computer movement in the 1980s.

The symphony was the first example of a major composer using voices in a symphony ( thus making it a choral symphony ).

This was the first time that he did this in a symphony, although he had done so in some previous works ( including the quartets Op.

The third movement of Gustav Mahler's first symphony features a solo for the double bass that quotes the children's song Frere Jacques, transposed into a minor key.

The first A is an expansive threnody on solo cello ( Schmidt's own instrument ) whose seamless lyricism predates Strauss's Metamorphosen by more than a decade ( its theme is later adjusted to form the scherzo of the symphony ); the B section is an equally expansive funeral march ( deliberately referencing Beethoven's Eroica in its texture ) whose dramatic climax is marked by an orchestral crescendo culminating in a gong and cymbal crash ( again, a clear allusion to similar climaxes in the later symphonies of Bruckner, and followed by what Harold Truscott has brilliantly described as a " reverse climax ", leading back to a repeat of the A section ).

* Ilaiyaraaja, the first Indian to compose a full symphony performed by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in London's Walthamstow Town Hall.

This may have given him the confidence finally to complete a number of works that he had wrestled with over many years, such as the cantata Rinaldo, his first string quartet, third piano quartet, and most notably his first symphony.

Over the course of several years, he changed an original project for a symphony in D minor into his first piano concerto.

She notes that while the first four notes of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony () form a meme widely replicated as an independent unit, one can regard the entire symphony as a single meme as well.

This first series of lessons culminated, at the 11-year-old Prokofiev's insistence, with the budding composer making his first attempt to write a symphony.

In the summer of that year, Prokofiev composed his first symphony, the Classical.

Bruckner's first great success was his Symphony No. 4 in E flat major, more commonly known as the Romantic Symphony, the only epithet applied to a symphony by the composer himself.

During the time that Bruckner began work on this symphony, he was aware that Wagner's death was imminent, and so the Adagio is slow mournful music for Wagner ( the climax of the movement comes at rehearsal letter W ), and for the first time in Bruckner's oeuvre, Wagner tubas are included in the orchestra.

This is the one symphony that Bruckner did not fully achieve in his first definite version, to which there can be no question of going back.

There have been several attempts to complete these sketches and prepare them for performance, as well as completions of his later sketches for an instrumental Finale, but only the first three movements of the symphony are usually performed.

The minuet and trio eventually became the standard third movement in the four-movement classical symphony, Johann Stamitz being the first to employ it thus with regularity.

Many symphonies are tonal works in four movements with the first in sonata form, which is often described by music theorists as the structure of a " classical " symphony, although many symphonies by the acknowledged classical masters of the form, Joseph Haydn, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, and Ludwig van Beethoven do not conform to this model.

At the age of sixteen, Saint-Saëns wrote his first symphony ; his second, published as Symphony No. 1 in E-flat major, was performed in 1853 to the astonishment of many critics and fellow composers.

At a Queen's Hall symphony concert on 22 November of that year, Holst conducted Venus, Mercury and Jupiter ( this was the first public performance of Venus ).

Some commentators have suggested that the ordering is structural, with the anomaly of Mars, Venus, Mercury, instead of the reverse, being a device to make the first four movements match the form of a symphony.

Pyotr Tchaikovsky is usually cited as the first major composer to use this instrument in a work for full symphony orchestra.

After a time of Music, Ilúvatar proposes a first ‘ great ’ design / theme / plan to all the Ainur at once: a symphony for His pleasure.